* This one time, at band camp, Kevin J. Menard, Jr. said:
> Technically, the '.' is already a legal character in mailbox names, but it does
> something funky (I don't recall quite what it is/was), but the patch curbs that
> behaviour.
>
IIRC it allows you to specifiy which IMAP folder the message should be
dumped into. (eg work.me@my.org will put the message directly into the
folder 'me' in 'me's mail area.
Greeno
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